Year: 2021
- Africa
News Update: Federal Police free Keria Ibrahim as prosecutors seek to bring terrorism, criminal charges against 20 former TPLF leaders
At a court hearing in February, the police claimed they have secured ten witnesses to testify against Keria. Photo: HoPR By Mahlet Fasil @mahletfasil Addis Abeba, March 11/2021 – The Federal police has told a federal court this morning that Keria Ibrahim, former speaker of the House of Federation, (HoF) was already released from detention. Keria, a member of TPLF’s Executive…
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News: mPharma, Belayab Pharmaceuticals sign franchise agreement to launch Haltons Pharmacies in Ethiopia
The franchise will see mPharma enter its eighth market in Sub-Saharan Africa and third in East Africa Addis Abeba, March 11/2021: mPharma, a health tech startup based in Ghana that manages prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers, has signed a franchise agreement with Belayab Pharmaceuticals PLC to increase patient access to affordable and quality medications in Ethiopia, through its…
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News: Yemen requests Ethiopia to send special aircraft to repatriate victims’ bodies, survivors of detention center fire
Picture: Carmela Godeau, IOM By Bileh Jelan @bilehjelan Addis Abeba, March 10/2021 – Addis Standard has learnt from sources in Yemen’s capital Sana’a that the Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent an official letter, a copy of which is received by Addis Standard, to its counterpart in Addis Abeba requesting the Ethiopian government to send a “special Ethiopian aircraft to…
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Letter: “Our forces are absolutely not responsible” for recent killing in Horo Guduru: OLA Spokesperson
Members of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) Dear Editors, We were dismayed at seeing a one-sided article being released by your publication that erroneously places blame on us for an atrocity committed in Horo Guduru on Orthodox Christians. What is further confusing is you based this assertion on the account of a single individual. We would like to state under no…
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News Analysis: OLF officially out from upcoming election, continues call for release of its jailed leadership, members
Hundreds of thousands of OLF fans turned op at Addis Abeba Mesqel Square in September 2018. Photo: Social Media By Siyanne Mekonnen @siyaanne Addis Abeba, March 10/2021 – The opposition party Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has officially announced that it has withdrawn from the upcoming election. In an interview with Addis Standard the party’s interim public relations head, Batte Urgessa, a…
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News: Gunmen who storm a local Church kill 29 in Horoguduru, western Oromia
Picture received by Addis Standard shows victims’ bodies of the weekend killing in Horoguduru, east Wellega, in Oromia By Mahlet Fasil @mahletfasil Addis Abeba, March 09/2021 – Twenty nine people were killed in East wollega, Oromia regional state. Residents who spoke to Addis Standard said that that attack took place on March 05 in Abo church in Debos Kebele, where residents…
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News: Raxio kicks off construction of Data Center in Addis Abeba
Addis Abeba, March 09/ 2021: The Raxio Group (“Raxio”), a premier pan-African data centre developer and operator, held a ceremony to formally kick-off the construction of the country’s first private Tier III carrier neutral colocation data centre at the ICT Park in Addis Abeba. The event was attended by members of the media, officials from the Industrial Parks Development Corporation, representatives…
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News Analysis: Migrant community organizer says more than 350 mainly Ethiopians perished in Yemen detention fire
By Bileh Jelan @bilehjelan Addis Abeba, March 09/2021 – Abdullah, an organizer of Ethiopian migrant community in the war-torn Yemen who spoke to Addis Standard recounted the continued plight of Ethiopian migrants and refugees in Yemen and said there are no known survivors out of the more than 350 mainly Ethiopian migrants who were inside the hangar area where a fire…
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News: Ethiopia stays firm on solving GERD issue “under the auspices of the ongoing AU-led negotiation”
Ambassador Dina Mufti. Photo: MoFA Addis Abeba, March 09/2021 – In his latest biweekly media briefing to local media, Ambassador Dina Mufti clarified Ethiopia’s long standing position on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) vis a vis Egypt’s and Sudan’s position to get third parties involved in mediation process. “The GERD issue can be solved under the auspices of the ongoing African…
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